Neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, were present — both were abroad — when the VB-G RAM G Bill was passed last week in Parliament by voice vote. The Modi government didn’t deem it necessary to send the Bill, which repeals and replaces the two-decade-old MGNREGA, to a standing committee for detailed scrutiny and for inviting public/expert opinions before its final passage. Why it did not, while referring two other bills (one to establish an apex regulatory body for higher education and the other to enact a unified Securities Market Code) to the concerned House committees, is inexplicable. Given that the MGNREGA provides wage........

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